Recreational places attract visitors

A number of people including women and children thronged various recreational places including parks and cinemas on the third day of Eid on Monday in the provincial capital.
Thousands of people visited The Lahore Museum, Bagh-e-Jinnah, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Minto Park, Shalamar Bagh, Lahore Fort and Lahore Zoo to enjoy the Eid festivities. Cinema houses were also seemed jam packed with families as well as youth while people have to wait for hours to buy tickets due to long queues in cinemas. The traffic flow on various roads in the city remained smooth, however traffic mess was also observed outside parks, cinemas and other recreational places on the third day of Eid while children were seen playing cricket on streets and some deserted thoroughfares. Some visitors at Bagh-e-Jinnah told APP that they had come to the recreational points to enjoy Eid, adding that the government should evolve more arrangements including cleanliness, water-coolers, parking and others to facilitate the visitors. They said monitoring and checking of prices and quality of food items at cafeterias in parks should also be put in place as some owners of canteens were fleecing people and selling sub-standard food items.